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  Carbon projects updates from NUS Services – 12th December 2008

  Following the successful Carbon Academy project, NUS Services is running two new carbon projects this year. Ventilation Project Over recent months a project to deliver energy cost savings through efficient ventilation has been running with NUS member unions. In collaboration with the Carbon ...

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  Sound Environmental Impact Awards – 11th December 2008

  Sound Environmental Impact Awards is now in its third year and is proving more popular than ever with 81 students’ unions signed up this year! Sound Impact is an environmental accreditation scheme with an awards element specifically designed for students' unions. The purpose of the scheme, ...

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  Take Action on Active Travel Update – 1st December 2008

  Update on progress Work on the policy call began in December 2007, when the Association of Directors of Public Health and Sustrans brought together a group of national organisations in public health, transport and the built environment to form a working group to encourage a more active cross-govern...

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  Green Gown Awards Brochure Launched – 24th November 2008

  Universities and Colleges Show the Way to a Greener Future The commitment of 14 further and higher education institutions to sustainable development is recognised in today’s publication of winning and commended entries in the 2007-8 Green Gown Awards. The brochure accompanies the initial laun...

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  BREEAM Higher Education Update – 19th November 2008

  An update and supporting materials on the BREEAM Higher Education scheme have been posted on www.heepi.org.uk. This includes version 2.0 of the assessor’s manual – open for feedback until November 26th – and a proposed credit scheme for laboratories (in the minutes of the Oxford me...

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  Buckinghamshire New University launches Buckinghamshire’s first ‘green’ car club – 3rd November 2008

  Bucks New University launches Buckinghamshire’s first ‘green’ car club Buckinghamshire New University has teamed up with the not-for-profit charity, Commonwheels, to launch an environmentally-concerned, on-campus car club, which will help reduce carbon emissions and improve tran...

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  EAUC Publishes New Display Energy Certificates Insight Guide – 23rd October 2008

  Buildings, in England and Wales, over 1000 m2 occupied by public institutions or organisations providing a public service and where the public visit regularly must now display a Display Energy Certificate (DEC) and regularly produce an accompanying Advisory Report. Although the regulations came ...

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  NUS Services Equipment Project – 3rd October 2008

  NUS Services is running a one year research project over the 2008/09 academic year looking at efficient ways to manage the free supplier equipment used in students’ union bars and retail space. Working with suppliers, manufacturers and twenty-one pilot unions NUS Services is conducting a numbe...

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  Sound Impact Awards Launch Their 3rd Year – 30th September 2008

  The Sound Environmental Impact Awards is an environmental accreditation scheme with an awards element specifically designed for students' unions supported by the EAUC. There are 22 Essential criteria all based around easy-to-implement practical actions that will reduce your union's negative envi...

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  EAUC Scotland Manager Appointed – 10th September 2008

  I am delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Chamberlain to the role of EAUC Scotland Manager. Andrew is known to many of us in his current role as Estates/Sustainability Contact for the Scottish Funding Council. I am delighted with this appointment and know that our work in Scotland will be...

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  The Green Gown Awards 2009 – 10th September 2008

  The Awards are going from strength to strength and are entering a new post funding council funded phase. Administrated by the EAUC, the cross agency steering group made up of AUDE, BUFDG, Guild HE, HEEPI and UUK is growing to reflect the dynamic development of the Awards. Following the next meet...

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  DCLG Publishes Guidance on Display Energy Certificates – 14th August 2008

  The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has published two new documents on Display Energy Certificates ahead of the new legislation coming into force on 1st October 2008. Both the transitional document, Display Energy Certificates & Advisory Reports: Transitional arrangements...

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  HEFCE & Salix Finance Revolving Green Fund – 12th August 2008

  The HEFCE & Salix Finance Revolving Green has been launched. A circular letter has been sent to all English higher education institutions with the outcomes of consultation and an invitation to apply for funds. This is available at https://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/circlets/2008/cl20_08/ . Applicat...

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  Scottish Universities and Colleges urged to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – 1st August 2008

  Waste Aware Campus, a new online resource to encourage Scottish universities and colleges to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle their waste, was launched on Wednesday 23 July 2008 by Waste Aware Scotland. The Waste Aware Campus website: www.wasteawarecampus.org.uk contains a number of ‘How to Gui...

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  Help Wanted for Centre for Excellence in Leadership Research on New Build Programme Support – 11th July 2008

  Help Wanted for Centre for Excellence in Leadership Research on New Build Programme Support Jo Matthews is doing some research into what sort of support colleges would like either before, during or after a new build programme. It is commissioned by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, to infor...

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  UCU calls for greater staff involvement in university climate efforts – 4th July 2008

  The University and College Union (UCU) have congratulated universities doing the most to combat climate change but urged all universities to step up the involvement of staff and students in their efforts. The union called for a carbon reduction strategy on every campus based on university consulta...

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  Green League 2008 Results Out – 3rd July 2008

  BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CUT THE CARBON PEOPLE & PLANET PUBLISH THE GREEN LEAGUE 2008 Today, Thursday 3 July, the award winning Green League was published by People & Planet, the UK's leading student campaign network. The Green League 2008 shows a remarkable improvement in environmental management and...

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  Get Involved in our New Procurement Project – 2nd July 2008

  Promoting Poverty Aware Procurement on Campus New Project on Sector Procurement and International Development - Recruitment Starting Now Building on the success of the Sustainable Procurement Project, the EAUC is pleased to announce a follow-on project funded by the Department for Internatio...

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  Ofsted's Talisman magazine - Green Issues in Education – 28th June 2008

  The June edition of Ofsted’s Talisman magazine tries to encourage national agencies, government departments and providers in the FE sector to work together to improve and embed sustainable development in education. The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is transforming the Further Education (...

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  Sound Impact Awards Portfolio – 26th June 2008

  The new Sound Impact portfolio is now out - packed with inspirational examples of environmental good practice celebrating student union collective achievements over the last academic year. The scheme will be relaunching to student unions on 25 August 2008 for the start of the new academic year. ...

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